10-June-06 Valencia Concert Review
Van Morrison seduces in Valencia
(Translated To English)
The mythical singer has tonight demonstrated in Valencia the use of his musical patrimony, the one that maintains to him in form to its 60 years with songs that corean thousands of people, with attitudes and gestures that they impress by his tranquillity, with melodías which they are part of popular history and which they would have to study in the schools of century XXI. Leon de Belfast has presented/displayed in the Palau of Music its new disc, devil Pay the, a new excuse to return to America from which as much has drunk in its 40 years of musical trip by the rock, the blues, folk, the jazz and, now again, country. In an austere scene, it left accompanied by a band by average dozen by excellent musicians - guitar, low, battery, piano, steel to guitar and violin, next to the coristas and contained in his traditional dark suit and hat, parapetado after smoky glasses and with a clock in front of him, in his also characteristic hour neatness: ninety minutes exact of recital. American roots The artist norirlandés has let itself want by a public who knows him well. He has done his habitual recited impossible ones, with vehement ininteligibles phrases and gruñidos. He has touched saxofón, the guitar and the harmonica, and he has not dedicated nor a word to silverplates it. He has directed to his band, ordered to repeat a subject because it did not like its starting, gave the back the respectable one to verify that their musicians gave the best thing of themselves, in the heat of went climax of And the healing there are begun to give foot bis as necessary as foreseeable: the girl of the brown eyes does not age, continues making the love on the grass and singing next to him that shala-la-la-la final that already is classic music of century XX. In the concert they have sounded in addition to Hank Williams and Webb Pierce, because there was to present/display his new disc by American roots, but also épicos subjects of their characteristic sensitivity, that one were listened to that drank of poets like W.B.Yeats and that seated chair in bands like Waterboys and Chieftains, but also in Sinead O'Connor. The culture of the legend, music as it travels spiritual to the past. Today the Valencians will return to have a new opportunity to enjoy the music of the veteran artist and, days 27 and the 28 of June, the Bilbaoans in individual recitales in the Euskalduna Palace in the middle of an extensive tour by the United States, England, Canada and, of course, Ireland.
Valencia Review 2
(Translated to English)
Van Morrison tonight demonstrated in Valencia the use of their musical patrimony, the one who maintains to him in form to his 60 years with songs that corean thousands of people, with attitudes and gestures that they impress by its tranquillity, with melodías which they are part of popular history and which they would have to study in the schools of century XXI. The well-known popularly as “Leon de Belfast” presented/displayed in the Palau of Music its new disc, “devil Pay the”, a new excuse to return to America from which as much has drunk in its 40 years of musical trip by the rock, the blues, folk, the jazz and, now again, country. In an austere scene, it left accompanied by a band by average dozen by excellent musicians - guitar, low, battery, piano, steel to guitar and violin, next to coristas- and contained in his traditional dark suit and hat, parapetado after smoky glasses and with a clock in front of him, in his also characteristic hour neatness: ninety minutes exact of recital. “Magic Time”, “Back on the top”, “Stranded”, “Only to dream”, “Fame”, “There stands the glass”, “Early in the morning”, “Precious Time”, “Bright side of the road”, “Don´t you make me high” and, of course, “Brown-eyed girl” to close the garden of the delights. They are, among others, gears of a concert that sounded perfect in Sala Iturbi, perhaps too much calculated but musically impeccable: the acoustics accompanied a very compenetrado repertoire that, says, is for adult people. If more children in the morning rose with “Bright side of the road”, the world would go better. Or, at least, more contentments would go to the school
